Andre prefers the ocean to land, but Sophie hasn’t been looking very healthy, and he’s worried about her, so he agrees to her request. The story starts with Sophie suggesting to her pirate captain husband, Andre Dubois, that they should spend Christmas in New Orleans, instead of shipboard. By moving the apostrophe, we now had a perfect title. Oh, we struggled, trying to make punctuation visually appealing! At last, my publisher-in-chief came up with the simple, impressive idea to tweak the title into: The Pirate Bride’s Holiday Masquerade. We came up with The Pirate’s Bride: A Holiday Masquerade, but didn’t like the look of the colon on the cover. The original title, A Pirate’s Bride Christmas, didn’t address the masks on the cover, or the ball where all the action of the story takes place. It just looked rich, with that deep red color, and the two masks implied romance.
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